I am thrilled with this. I knew that I'd been underperforming in my recent races (mostly due to other factors, like illness), so I was ready for a great race. This exceeded my expectations by far. The only glitch was that I went the wrong way - a sign fell down and a whole group of us (maybe everyone?) kinda cut it short a block. But I checked it out on USATF's mapping feature and it still seemed to be the right distance, so I'm considering my time valid. If it was short, it wasn't by much.

I don't think I'd do anything differently. I ran this really well. Can't complain about taking two minutes off my time. That's awesome. I'd have loved time clocks at the mile marks so I knew how I was doing at the time, but on second thought, it might've psyched me out to see that I was going so fast!

Wandered around, checked out the results, re-checked the race map and figured out I'd made that wrong turn (or missed the right turn, really).


Nothing! This was spot on for the shape I'm in right now. It matches up well with my training.


This was a pretty nice race overall. It was very small because this is the first year it's being held. They seemed to have plenty of volunteers, water stations were good, everything was well organized. The post-race activities weren't much to write home about, but that's because they're just starting out. My big complaint is that they started the awards before everyone was done. Having finished last in that tri last weekend, I'm now very sensitive to this. It would be better sportsmanship to wait, and if the winners can't stick around to pick up their prizes, so be it. But they'll learn for next year, I'm sure.